It’s Your Move: daily chess puzzle #244

Evaluate 1 Qe2

Espig v Radulov, Raach 1969

Solution

The presumption is that 1…Ne4 wins a pawn because of the discovery on the Nd4, and this move was played.

However, it loses: 2 Nc6 Bc6 3 Ne4 Be4 and now 4 Bd2! discovers an attack on the Be4: Black resigned.

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